called themselves romaioi "Romans' also under the rule of Justinian had the old Roman laws reviewed. These laws were put into the book Corpus iuris civilis.
revival of Greek/Roman culture
seriously disrupted Western economy
theme system of Byzantine
supported aristocracy
constant attacks from westerners
crusades
crusaders sacked Constantinople
never fully recovered
final fall came from the Ottoman Turks
Converted to orthodox Christianity
- Patriarch= #1 figurehead of eastern orthodox church
devised alphabet known as Cyrillic which became popular with the Slavic populous
conversion of Russia to orthodox Christianity
Prince Vladimir of Kiev. He subjected his subjects to follow his example of converting to the Orthodox Church
establishes firm, Cesaropapist control over Russian orthodox church
thesis statement: Eastern and western Europe's social and political developements varied widely by means of agriculture, religious beliefs and political agendas
done by: Nathan N, Kelly C.
validated by Scott Riley 5/3/08
validated by Courtney Boyer 5/3/08
validated by Alyssa Plesser 5/5/08
validated by Alex Schuler 5-5-08...good job guys :)
validated by Danielle Fowler 5/6/08
- lords and retainers
- kings > local nobles > knights/clergy > peasants/serfs
- Pope= #1 figure head of entire western europe
- can appoint kings as holy roman emperor
- population increase
- agricultural boom
- horse-collar, horse-shoe, metal plows,
- all sped up production
- Charlemenge
- first holy roman emperor
- appointed by pope
- seen as a legitimate successor to roman emperors
- decentralized rule throughout, except for Pope's influence
- attempts to reestablish Roman rule over mediterranean and eastern Europe
- crusades and politics of conversion
- German tribal and Muslim invasions (Magyars, Vikings, Muslims)
East- Byzantine
- strongly resented imperial rule of western europe
- called themselves romaioi "Romans' also under the rule of Justinian had the old Roman laws reviewed. These laws were put into the book Corpus iuris civilis.
- revival of Greek/Roman culture
- seriously disrupted Western economy
- theme system of Byzantine
- supported aristocracy
- constant attacks from westerners
- crusades
- crusaders sacked Constantinople
- never fully recovered
- final fall came from the Ottoman Turks
- Converted to orthodox Christianity
- Patriarch= #1 figurehead of eastern orthodox church- Cyril and Methodius
- Slavic monks
- devised alphabet known as Cyrillic which became popular with the Slavic populous
- conversion of Russia to orthodox Christianity
- Prince Vladimir of Kiev. He subjected his subjects to follow his example of converting to the Orthodox Church
- establishes firm, Cesaropapist control over Russian orthodox church
thesis statement: Eastern and western Europe's social and political developements varied widely by means of agriculture, religious beliefs and political agendasdone by: Nathan N, Kelly C.
validated by Scott Riley 5/3/08
validated by Courtney Boyer 5/3/08
validated by Alyssa Plesser 5/5/08
validated by Alex Schuler 5-5-08...good job guys :)
validated by Danielle Fowler 5/6/08